MOBILE POLICE ABUSE AT NARAHENPITA

Young unmarried couple stopped at makeshift road check point, subjected toharassment and embarrassment, robbed of cash

The suspects- 4 Policemen from Narahenpita Police nabbed by the CID and remanded:

Last Friday night along Kirimandala Mawatha, in Narahenpita an instant unauthorised road check point had been erected by a group of Policemen, probably going on a night patrol. They had stopped a BMW vehicle driven by a youngster and alongside had been a spinster probably his fiancé’. The Police had asked them irrelevant questions, robbed the youngster of his cash and tried to sexually abuse and embarass the young spinster by feeling her body.
The youngster without making an entry in the Police had decided it is more prudent to complain to a Deputy Inspector of Police about the incident. Instant investigations were conducted by the CID and they were able to identify 4 Policemen and to arrest them to be produced before Courts. The youngster is the son of a reputed businessman from Kotahena by name Shehan Wickremasinghe who is on vacation for Christmas when this miserable incident took place. He is undergoing a course in Aircraft Engineering in the ‘Sunway’ University in Malaysia.
After the car was stopped at the unauthorised make shift road ‘block’, one policeman had asked “Where are you both heading to, are you’ll married, what are you both trying to go in the night” etc., all third grade irrelevant questions typical of our Policemen’s language were posed.
They had been asked to get off the vehicle and the youngsters body had been checked by feeling his entire body. Then he was asked to remove his trouser and had made dirty remarks about his vital organs. From his pocket had stolen a thousand rupee note and some coins from other pockets.
Again they had abusive language.”So you both are going to enjoy and have fun tonight, but it is not good to enjoy alone Mallie”. The oldest of the lot had felt the body of the young spinster and as they tried to escape had grabbed their cell phones. On pleading one of the phones had been given back.
On the 24th when the youngster was thinking of this unfortunate incident he had received a telephone call to his mobile phone. The caller had said “the girl whom you lifted yesterday is needed by us also”. Then on the 25th only he had complained to a DIG. The CID was summoned and deployed to trap these Policemen. After successful investigations four Policemen were arrested.
The arrested were identified as Sergeant P.Somaratna, Police Constable Supun Prasanna Gunaratna, Police Constable Eashan Madushankar and Police driver Nuwan Chinthaka. They were produced yesterday before the Additional Magistrate Colombo, Hasan Amarasena who ordered them to be remanded until the 4th.An identification parade is also to take place before the case is heard.